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Wof 2028 Verrier (cabinet for glasses) 1800-1820:
A graceful & rare Verrier (cabinet for glasses) of the Directoire-Restauration transitional style, c.1800-20. Warm brown walnut. Bold crown molding heralds Restauration style, while smartly tapered legs & exposed mitered glazing construction speak to the taste of the Directoire. Adjustable shelves. Pine secondary.
Dimensions: 38 3/4" h, 24" w, 11"d
$3,600
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WOF 2128z: Bonnetiere Display Cabinet:
Bonnetiere display cabinet, ash & oak, mid-19th century Country French. The carved decoration is late 19th century. Adjustable shelves, the top lighted. $1,200
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WOF 2148: Bamboo Glazed Double Door Bookcase:
WOF 2148: A Bamboo Glazed Double Door Bookcase of the finest quality, c.1880, with original surfaces and top decoupaged with oak leaves and acorns. 38 1/8" w., 13 3/8" d., 42 3/4" h. $1,650
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WOF-1169z George II Bureau Bookcase:
A superb Early Georgian Walnut veneered bureau bookcase with gilt cartouche centered between broken arches with ogee moldings over a pair of mirrored doors enclosing a fitted interior with central compartments, drawers and hidden compartments. Columns with mounted capitols at the sides of the central cupboard. There are candle slides below the outer doors, above the fall front of the lower section which encloses a fitted interior of drawers, pigeon holes, a central cupboard flanked by column drawers and with hidden compartments and a stationary well. The outer fall with reading ledge and the whole over two small and two large drawers on bracket feet. The whole of rich color and beautifully figured timbers with the drawers banded and cross banded as are the sides of the cases, the mirrored doors and the pediments. The piece is Second and Third Phase construction in most details (a few earlier techniques are used, however). See Adam Bowett, "The Magazine Antiques", June 2002, pp.108-115, "A New Chronology for English Walnut Veneered Furniture, c.1670-1740". Oak and pine (deal) secondary woods. Third set of hardware. Pediment and feet original, but partially removed and then reinstalled at some rather early point. Provenance: Grosvenor House Antiques Show; William Blair Antiques; and the estate of a prominent American preservationist (name provided to purchaser). England, c.1715-1730. 95 1/2" high, 39" wide, 24" deep. $P.O.R
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Wof-2093: Portugese Carved Bookcase on Cabinet:
A striking mid-19th century Portuguese Colonial carved rosewood Bookcase on Cabinet from Goa, raised on smartly turned feet. The naturalistic carving is carried throughout this handsome & useful piece. Most of the motifs speak to design from 1835, the circular reeded paterae door panels, the egg & dart moldings, the gadrooned edges & so forth.
53" w., 25 3/4" d., 65 1/2" h.
$6,500
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Wof-2145: Bamboo Revolving Bookcase:
A bamboo revolving bookcase - a very rare form in bamboo. Late 19th century. Original lacquer surfaces. In good original condition.
18 1/2" sq., 33 3/8" h.
$1,600
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Wof-2146: Georgian Bureau Bookcase:
A handsome George III Bureau Bookcase of mahogany, c.1780. 13-pane astragal glazed bookcase doors, enclosing adjustable shelves, under a replaced dentil crown molding. The fall revealing a well fitted interior with document drawers flanking the prospect door, each with barberpole line inlays, the door centered with an inlay of a classical urn. Boxwood inlays throughout and turned wooden knobs. Nice old leather. 2 over 3 drawers. The whole raised on original powerful ogee bracket feet.
43 3/4" w., 22 3/8" d., 89" h.
$13,500
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